FFRF’s gilt Winter Solstice message returned for its 15th year to the first-floor rotunda of the Wisconsin Capitol for the month of December. The solstice message was composed by Anne …
Day: March 11, 2011
Reason (v.) to think coherently, logically
It’s Reason’s Greetings from Raleigh, N.C., where FFRF and its local chapter, the Triangle Freethought Society, placed this 14×48-foot billboard Dec. 9 at Capital Boulevard on Highway 401 for a …
Six-word journeys to nonbelief
In October, Killing the Buddha (aka KtB), an online literary magazine about religion, invited readers to share their spiritual journeys. Maximum word count: six. The idea came from Smith magazine’s …
Why members deconverted
Since the Freedom From Religion Foundation was founded in 1978 in Madison, Wis., it’s grown to approximately 16,000 members nationwide. FFRF has enjoyed steady growth over the years, but has …
Busiest year ever for legal staff
This report was delivered at the FFRF convention on Oct. 30. The courts are the last line of defense for atheists and agnostics in a nation crawling with religious people …
All soldiers aren’t Christian
FFRF wrote a letter Nov. 8 to alert the library director in Smithfield, N.C., that it’s unconstitutional for a public library to put a Christian cross on a poster announcing …
FFRF legal team busy defending Constitution
Wis. board denies biblical charter school FFRF sent a letter Nov. 19 to the West Bend (Wis.) Joint School District objecting to Baptist Pastor Bruce Dunford’s plan for a religious …
Beaten for protesting prayer
Last April 29 in Honolulu, Mitch Kahle stood tall for nine seconds to separate state from church as the Hawaii Senate opened its daily session with Christian prayer. As a …
A revolutionary evolutionary — James F. Crow
Dr. James Crow has been a major source of inspiration to me since I arrived at the University of Wisconsin and started work as a professor of plant breeding and …
